What high school required reading have you reread/considered rereading?
If you have reread it, did you like it better (or at all) as a teenager or as an adult?
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@MotherDucker nothing that's currently on the high school reading list. I have high schoolers, and their required reading is depressing AF. I've actually written to the school board to complain. Every book is full of graphic violence, hopelessness, suicide, rape. Supposed to teach "human condition," but is there a way to do that without so much darkness? #cosobookclub
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@CarmenSlamdiego yikes! What titles are they reading? I hope there is some kind of light at the end of the tunnel theme to them at least. Like not just “shit sucks then you die.”
@MotherDucker Things Fall Apart (African colonialism and domestic violence), The Lottery (senseless violence), 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (horrifying effects of extreme poverty),
Joy Luck Club (rape, spousal abuse, suicide), Woman Warrior (violence and suicide), The Road (cannibalism and violence), The Dutch House( parental abandonment and emotional manipulation/abuse). My kids are highly sensitive people who love to read, but hate lit for this reason.